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The Instrument as Cosmos: The Gai Tian Model and Its Operational Embodiment in Early Chinese Science

2026-01-15

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This paper argues that the Chinese Gai Tian (Heavenly Canopy) cosmology was an applied science, materialized through a sophisticated astronomical instrument. This argument is grounded in Cullen's (2017) systematic reconstruction of ancient Chinese astronomical systems, which establishes the Gai Tian as an operationally viable mathematical model rather than mere speculation1.Moving beyond textual analysis, we recon...

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Literature Corpus work: b9662865-b265-5f2c-acdb-f4648f21d6ba
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202601.1131.v1

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